(July 8, 2011 at 1:32 pm)Rhythm Wrote: What makes you think that the space program wasn't instrumental in weapons development? A booster that can lift a shuttle can lift a significant nuclear payload. Lets not even talk about the shuttles ability to be refit as a "frigate in space"..lol.
I'm not saying it isn't responsible for mind boggling technology, which is my gripe with it ending, they just don't produce the weapons. The military has its own masterminds. NASA doesn't have a monopoly on brains.